IISEE NEWSLETTER NO.38 (issued on March 19, 2009)

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[1] IISEE-UNESCO Lecture Notes Archive is opened

The IISEE-UNESCO Lecture Notes Project for training will post the trainingmaterials used in the IISEE training courses on the IISEE website(http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/lna/) in cooperation with UNESCO and JICA. Itultimately aims to help mitigate earthquake disasters in developingcountries by disseminating information on the IISEE training courses andmaking the lecture contents available. We welcome translation to your nativelanguages in order to disseminate our materials to local people in yourcountries. Therefore, if you wish to do so, please contact us.Until now, the following lecture notes are posted:

[2] The 14th Global Seismological Observation Course has finished!

The 14th Training Course on Global Seismological Observation was held fromJanuary 8 to March 6, 2009. The ten participants studied about the CTBTregime and the role of seismology in International Monitoring System. Theyalso learned skills to design a seismic network and data analysis techniquesto discriminate nuclear tests from natural earthquakes. All of theparticipants successfully completed the training course. We owe this successto the guest lecturers and those who gave us valuable advice at the sitesthat we visited. We are very grateful to them all. This training course isgoing to be held continuously for 2009-2011 of Japanese fiscal years.

Tatsuhiko HARAChief Research Scientist, IISEE

[3] Proposed new training courses not approved

It is regrettable to announce you that new training courses will not start.Although we had proposed to JICA and announced you the proposal of 2 newInternational Training Courses; "Earthquake Disaster Mitigation (DoctorDegree Program)" and "Technology and Policy for Earthquake and TsunamiDisaster Management", on IISEE NEWSLETTER NO.30 (July, 2008), they were notapproved by JICA.

Nobuo HURUKAWADirector, IISEE

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